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White Mountains Re is looking to raise almost $250 million through a share offering that will close this Thursday.
The money from the preference shares, which cost $1,000 each, will be used to further capitalise the company's reinsurance subsidiaries...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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BEIJING (AP) — China began letting its currency gradually rise against the dollar almost two years ago, a grudging response to complaints by trading partners that a weak yuan was behind the country's soaring trade surpluses.Since then, the US trade g...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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Bermudians seeking an entry point to the corporate business world that dominates the Island's economy can study for, and sit, the required professional qualification without leaving Bermuda.
Remarkably internal auditing, a profession that has countle...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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THE folks at Fidelity Investments shouldn't expect VIP seating at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Boston-based company slashed its stake in PetroChina Co. amid pressure to sell shares of companies doing business in Sudan, which has been accused of sup...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration said on Friday it hopes for agreements on airline flights, use of US pollution-control technology and other subjects when a high-level delegation from China visits next week for a second round of talks aimed ...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks surged higher as another round of corporate take-overs prodded investors to continue a largely uninterrupted months-long buying streak. The Dow Jones industrial average registered its 24th record close this year and the Standar...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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THE early months of 2007 in the US stock market have borne an uncanny resemblance to the early months of 2006.Now, as then, the market has pushed ahead to some solid, if not quite spectacular, gains amid a wide array of worries about war, inflation a...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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A RECENTLY released survey on women and retirement says that today's young women and their mothers have different ideas about savings. The report goes by the snappy title of "It's Not Your Mother's Retirement: The MetLife Study of Women and Generatio...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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RAILROADS are not just for toy boxes. On Tuesday, May 14, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) revealed that the company had reported to the US Securities and Exchange Commission purchase of significant stakes in two health insurers, Well ...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks rose, extending the stock index's rally to a third week, as take-over speculation and higher crude oil prices fuelled gains in phone and energy companies such as BCE and Canadian Natural Resources."Canada's on fi...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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